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Cognizant awarded five-year IT operations and maintenance contract by VodafoneZiggo

By TechTaffy Desk

Cognizant has been selected by VodafoneZiggo, a joint venture between Vodafone and Liberty Global, and providers of fixed, mobile and integrated communication and entertainment services to consumers and businesses, for a five-year operations and maintenance agreement.

As managed services partner of VodafoneZiggo, Cognizant will consolidate and support the company’s operations of IT and virtualized mobile network infrastructure.

The size of the contract was not shared.

[Image courtesy: Vodafone]

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